Director, Technology Vendor & Asset Management
About The Position
McKesson Medical-Surgical (expected to become Wellverse in early 2027) is seeking a strategic, results-driven Director of Technology Vendor & Asset Management. This leader will govern and optimize enterprise technology vendor relationships and technology asset lifecycle management, maximizing value from technology investments, improving supplier performance, optimizing costs, and establishing an asset management function that supports the organization’s growth as an independent healthcare services organization. The Director oversees vendor strategy, contract governance, hardware and software asset management, financial controls, lifecycle planning, compliance, and operational processes across the enterprise technology portfolio. The role partners with Procurement, Finance, Security, Technology, Legal, and business leaders to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value while minimizing risk and operational complexity. The leader will build and develop teams responsible for vendor management, software and hardware asset management, and operational governance. Success during the first 12–18 months includes establishing vendor governance and executive review processes, implementing enterprise asset standards, reducing technology spend, improving software license compliance and audit readiness, creating accurate enterprise asset visibility and executive reporting, and supporting technology separation and independent operating model objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing vendor management, IT procurement, technology operations, or asset management functions.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar technology vendor portfolios and enterprise supplier relationships.
- Proven experience leading software asset management (SAM) and/or IT asset management (ITAM) programs.
- Strong contract negotiation, financial management, and supplier governance experience.
- Experience establishing vendor performance scorecards and executive business reviews.
- Demonstrated success driving cost optimization and operational efficiency initiatives.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Experience in regulated healthcare, pharmaceutical, distribution, or highly complex enterprise environments.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure, cloud, workplace technology, end-user computing, and digital workspace environments.
- Experience with SaaS licensing models, cloud consumption management, and managed services governance.
- Experience supporting mergers, divestitures, carve-outs, or organizational transformations.
- Certifications such as Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM), Certified IT Asset Manager (CITAM), ITIL, Certified Technology Procurement Professional (CTPP), PMP, or equivalent.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute an enterprise technology vendor management strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Own executive relationships with strategic technology suppliers and managed service providers.
- Establish vendor governance frameworks, scorecards, business reviews, and performance management processes.
- Lead quarterly business reviews and executive steering committees with critical service providers.
- Partner with Procurement and Legal to negotiate software, hardware, telecom, SaaS, cloud, and managed services agreements.
- Drive contract standardization, renewal planning, risk mitigation, and vendor rationalization.
- Monitor supplier performance against service-level agreements, key performance indicators, contractual commitments, and business outcomes; develop escalation and remediation plans for underperforming vendors.
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs while improving service quality and innovation, and ensure vendors meet security, architecture, compliance, and operational standards.
- Lead enterprise hardware, software, and technology asset management programs and establish standards for asset acquisition, deployment, utilization, maintenance, recovery, and disposition.
- Develop lifecycle strategies for end-user devices, peripherals, mobile solutions, infrastructure assets, and software portfolios.
- Maintain accurate enterprise asset inventories and visibility across technology assets.
- Drive software license compliance and optimization, software asset management, audit readiness, and licensing compliance processes.
- Identify opportunities for license consolidation, contract optimization, and cost avoidance.
- Oversee asset metrics, reporting, analytics, forecasting, and lifecycle planning; partner with Security and Compliance on asset lifecycle controls.
- Own technology asset- and vendor-related operating budgets and develop financial models for investment planning, renewals, vendor consolidation, and cost optimization.
- Drive annual budgeting and strategic planning for vendor and asset portfolios.
- Establish performance metrics and leadership reporting, and deliver measurable improvements in vendor performance, asset utilization, compliance, and total cost of ownership.
- Ensure operational processes are efficient, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
- Implement governance for technology procurement, contract management, and asset lifecycle controls.
- Ensure compliance with licensing requirements, contractual obligations, regulatory standards, and corporate policies; identify and mitigate vendor, contractual, operational, financial, and technology risks.
- Support internal and external audits related to technology assets and supplier agreements, and establish controls for accurate reporting, asset accountability, and contractual compliance.
- Build and lead teams responsible for vendor management, software asset management, hardware asset management, and operational governance.
- Develop organizational capabilities and best practices supporting the future-state operating model; foster accountability, continuous improvement, customer service, and operational excellence.
- Coach and mentor managers and individual contributors, support succession planning and leadership development, and build partnerships across Technology, Finance, Procurement, Legal, HR, and Business Operations.
- Establish the enterprise vendor governance model and executive review cadence; implement asset standards and lifecycle processes; improve spend, licensing compliance, audit readiness, asset visibility, and executive performance reporting; support technology separation and independent operating model objectives.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package as part of McKesson’s Total Rewards.
- Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.
- Benefits are referenced, but specific benefit offerings are not listed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
